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user-inactivated · 1684 days ago · link · · parent · post: Share a short poem. Here's mine "Dappled Sunlight"
who was loved upon a time where the meadow nestles in the shadow of the old crumbling wall, Roman wall decrepit; aquiline but bent sweetly picking the bluebell and foxglove humming melodies with no name anywhere taut grass, scent of spring and youth dreaming in argent, as queens do where now are bright stars? where now are ladies' favors? where now is flaxen hair? only ghosts remain, imprints of footsteps no chiming voice to wake his soul to a vanished song, a once-proud company in the twilight of an autumnal life his years pass without her his years pass without her innocent as hypatia, heart in heart's palm where now are burnished shields? and the rough stone is cold to touch